Overview

Before the first trilobite wriggled through the muck that would become Earth's oceans, the Ring Builders left us the door to the Milky Way. The door remained closed until we'd stumbled around the solar system for the brief decades it took humans to turn our tiny corner of the galaxy into our latest warzone. While looking for tools to gain supremacy over each other, the humans fumbled the lock open and discovered the Ring Gate. It lead to a starless, locationless pocket filled with gates, and like rats we scurried through. Warlords, rebels, idealists and zealots - every shade of human hope and ambition, from the most noble to the most depraved. You were among them, one ship, stolen from a corporation on the far side of one gate among thousands. You are, as many crews are, bound as chosen family. Interconnected lovers, some poly, some monogamous all bound to each other by affections. And the need to survive. There is no going home. Imprisonment, or likely worse, being uploaded to the cloud to spend eternity as digital slave labor, while your bodies are sold to the highest bidders to inhabit as repossessed vessels of immortality, is all that waits on the other side of the gate to Earth. Going through the gate promised freedom and a future free of oppression - now all that remains is to make that happen. We need a full crew. Captain, pilot, engineer, doctor, deckhands and whoever else you think fits. I expect to be more of a GM for this than play a character, so billets will be handed out as people request them. I'm taking inspiration form a lot of places on this - The Expanse cyberpunk, games like Eclipse Phase and shows like Farscape and Altered Carbon. The key point is, you're in this together, bound by affection. You need not be involved with everyone, but a web of intimate relationships ties everyone together every bit as tightly as the need to survive.